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单词 merveilleux
释义 merveilleux, -euse|mɛrvɛjø, -øz|
[Fr.: see marvellous.]
Contemporary names for the extravagantly dressed French fops and ‘fine ladies’ of the period of the Directory, who affected a revival of the classical costume of ancient Greece.
[1819: cf. marvellous B.]1892Daily News 19 Oct. 5/1 The ‘merveilleuse’ of the Directory in France. The ‘merveilleuse’, or ‘ultra-fashionable’, as the writer..rather inadequately translates her title, ‘walked..half naked in the Champs Elysees’.1898M. Loyd tr. O. Uzanne's Fashion in Paris i. 8 The Ecrouelleux, the Inconcevables, the Merveilleux, with their chins sunk in their huge cravats.Ibid. 19 The Merveilleuses survived the Incroyables by a couple of years.
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